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Six months after his junta took over South Korea in an almost bloodless coup, Lieut. General Park Chung Hee, a puritan in olive drab, is making an unprecedented effort to clean out ...

Rows of coffins line a university classroom in the South Korean port city of Busan, ready for use in training the funeral ...

SEOUL, Oct 10 (Reuters) - South Korea on Friday summoned the Cambodian ambassador to protest at the death of a South Korean student in Cambodia and raised the travel alert for its capital Phnom Penh ...

CAMP HUMPHREYS, South Korea — The United States and South Korea are deepening their “future-oriented” strategic alliance, senior officials said this week, even as Seoul works to reclaim wartime ...

Hong Myung-bo (left) comes face to face with one of the best managers of all time on Friday. / Omar Vega/Getty Images, Marco Galvao/Sports Press Photo South Korea and Brazil continue their ...

SEOUL, Oct 15 (Reuters) - South Korea issued a "code-black" travel ban for parts of Cambodia on Wednesday and dispatched a team of high-level officials to help nationals lured into working in scam ...

South Korea’s beauty industry has broken out of its domestic shell to become a global juggernaut. In 2024, Korean cosmetics exports surpassed $10.2 billion, marking a 20.6 percent year-on-year ...

SEOUL, Oct. 15 (UPI) --South Korea on Wednesday resumed an excavation project for the remains of soldiers killed in the Korean War at a battle site in the demilitarized zone, its military said, as ...

“It was by accident,” Saber told The Diplomat when asked how the white hat hacker and their partner cyb0rg discovered what appears to be one of the most comprehensive known penetrations of the South ...

Han Hak-ja, the leader of the Unification Church, arrives at a court to attend a hearing to review her arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors in Seoul, South Korea, September 22, 2025.

TOKYO — A senior North Korean diplomat who defected two years ago painted a grim picture of life in the hermit kingdom Thursday as he described his disillusionment and escape from the totalitarian ...